Timekeeper
I am the human clock. During the week, my alarm clock bleeps at 6:15 am. If I'm really good, I get up at first bleep; if not, I snooze-bleep-snooze.
Shortly thereafter, I'm routing Gabriel from bed. "It's time to wake up. Quickly! Let's go. Gotta shower & get ready for school!"
In parallel, albiet slightly later, Janette or one of our nurses is repeating the process with Hannah across the hall. "C'mon, Hannah. Got school today. Singing class - yeah! C'mon. No, let's wake up."
Throughout the day, Janette and I continue to play the clocks. For Gabriel, that's enough game time, you need to wait five minutes, it's bed time. For Hannah, hold it together for another few minutes, you've been on the potty for twenty minutes, Hannah, and it's bed time (no, really, it's bed time).
The one clock I'm really bad at running is my own. My work self has been very busy, turning in almost all projects on time thanks to a great teammate & lots of homework. My personal self, though, really stinks at the time thing: no time to blog, a little time to relax, and not enough time with the family.
My little apology for not writing more. Will try to improve right after I get this project done... and then this one 
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-- Dad
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I'm right there with you, Dad.
Posted by: Barbara | December 6, 2008 11:37 AM
Well .. an apology of my own, I have been away from blogging for a while too. I got caught up in facebook and ... um, reality. Strange thing, the latter! It hogs all my time! But I'm so pleased to read all about you guys again, and you seem to be doing well! Reassure me that the post-election Obama silence is just an illusion, and that in fact, he's keeping busy and intends to do lots of magic soon???!!!
Lovely to be back!
Alison
Posted by: Alison | January 2, 2009 11:32 PM